Two most common crystal structures in metals and metal alloys are body-centered cubic
(bcc) and face-centered cubic (fcc) structures. The phase transitions between these …

Lattice thermal conductivities of two SiO 2 polymorphs, ie, α quartz (low) and α cristobalite
(low), were studied using first-principles anharmonic phonon calculation and linearized …

We carry out a systematic study of the thermal conductivity of four single-layer transition
metal dichalcogenides, MX 2 (M= Mo, W; X= S, Se) from first-principles by solving the …

The thermoelectric figure of merit ZT comprises electronic and vibrational contributions that
drastically change across phase transitions, and the most common theoretical ab initio …

Information over the phonon band structure is crucial to predicting many thermodynamic
properties of materials, such as thermal transport coefficients. Highly accurate phonon …

Microswimmer suspensions self-organize into complex spatiotemporal flow patterns,
including vortex lattices and mesoscale turbulence. Here we explore the consequences for …

Thermal conductivity (κ) of mantle minerals is key to understanding dynamics in the deep
Earth. It controls the style of mantle convection and the timescale of cooling both the mantle …

Thermal transport in subducted slabs and mantle critically influences their thermo-chemical
evolution and dynamics, where the thermal conductivity controls the magnitude of …

Metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) in vanadium dioxide (VO 2) was investigated by electrical
and thermal transport measurements. We report an order-of-magnitude enhancement of …

Understanding the behavior of silica glasses at high pressures and strain rates is of great
importance for geological processes and highly relevant to many technological applications …